Privacy policy

Privacy Statement

Particle Measuring Systems® is a registered trademark and the Particle Measuring Systems logo is a trademark of Particle Measuring Systems, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado. We are committed to respecting the privacy rights of our customers and visitors to our website and we want our customers to know how we collect, use and share information about you and what we do to protect this information. We created this Privacy Policy to give you confidence in how we treat personal information as you visit and use our website. Anything in our privacy policy is subject to change so we encourage you to review our policy. You will find a list of tracked updates to our policy so that you can see a history of the continual improvements we make and how that may affect you.

Why do we collect information?

We want to develop products and services that meet your needs. One way we do this is to get information on who our customers are, what they need and how to support those needs.

What information is collected?

We collect the following information:

Personally Identifiable Information refers to information specific to who you are. This information may include your name combined with your address, country of origin, e-mail address, birth date, age, gender, phone number, credit card or other payment information. This also includes your industry of practice.

Personally Identifiable Information does not include information lawfully obtained from publicly available sources, or from federal, state, or local government records lawfully made available to the general public.

Depending on your use of our website, we may receive more or less of the above Personally Identifiable Information.

Please note that your personally identifiable information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States. The laws regarding the handling of personal data in the United States may differ from the laws of other countries but, as we explain below, we will hold and transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. If you access the website or our services from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of our website, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer and this Privacy Statement. Additionally, you understand that your personal information may be processed in countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing personal information may be less stringent than in your country.

How is this information shared?

We do not sell, transfer, assign or share customer information to any third party affiliate without direct consent from you.

We may share information:

To charge your credit card

For internal purposes only

If required by law

At your request or direction

We may also share this information for marketing purposes such as:

E-mail campaigns

Direct mail campaigns

Surveys, focus groups, etc. for internal operation and commercial research and analysis

Improve the effectiveness of our website, services and marketing efforts

How Do We Protect Your Personally Identifiable Information?

We use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the integrity of all information collected. We use firewalls and other technologies to protect Personally Identifiable Information on our computer systems. We restrict employee access to Personally Identifiable Information to authorized employees with the appropriate electronic credentials for such access.

When you access your account information, the information is kept on a secure server. Your credit card transactions and other transactions are handled by established third party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order. All of the Personally Identifiable Information we collect is protected against unauthorized access by physical security means.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party affiliates.

How Can You Update Your Personally Identifiable Information?

We encourage you to promptly update your address, phone number, email address or other aspects of your Personally Identifiable Information if it changes. Contact us to update your information at (insert phone #) If you wish to have your information or account deleted, please understand that we may not be able to delete information associated with past purchases, or information we have backed up on certain data storage systems.

How Can You Opt Out of Communications from Us?

You may opt-out of any listing(s) at any time by contacting us at info@pmeasuring.com or by using the unsubscribe options provided on any notifications that we send.

What Non-Personally Identifiable Information Do We Collect?

We collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a individual and an aggregated basis.

We collect the domain name or Internet Protocol (IP) address in order to continually make improvements to our site and develop pages that follow intuitive navigation and fresh and current content for our site users.

We collect our Website visitors’ most immediate URL visited, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), the date and time of the visit, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor’s computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and search terms entered on our site.

Our Website uses “cookies,” small amounts of information stored in files within your computer’s browser by a particular Website that helps it recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting the Site. For example, we may save your login information so you do not have to sign in every time you visit the site. You may set your browser so that it will not accept “cookies;” however, you will be unable to engage in transactions on our Website.

There are “do not track” or similar browser choices available to consumers with respect to online web activity, but given the present lack of consensus of what constitutes an informed election, appropriate trigger or breadth of scope of such choice, our Website will continue to operate as described in this policy, whether or not a “do not track” signal is received.

We also give accessible items from our site as follows:

Links

The links on our site will not open in new windows without notifying you.

Images

Links that lead away from the company website will open in a new window.

Files (downloadable)

Any file that is downloaded will be designated by file type and is a downloadable file.
We do not control the content of external websites which we provide a link to. These websites may have their own privacy practices and policies and we encourage you to review any policy of a third party website before providing them with personal information.

A Special Note About Children

Children are not eligible to use our services, including the Websites, and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) not submit any personal information to us. The Websites are not directed at anyone under 18 and they are not intended to attract anyone under 18. We also do not collect or maintain personally identifiable information from those users who we actually know are under 18. Should we learn or be notified that we have collected information from users under the age of 18, we will immediately delete such personally identifiable information.

Acceptance of this Privacy Policy

By using this website you acknowledge, accept and agree to abide by our Privacy Policy and the limitations of its protection. If there are substantial changes to this Policy we will place a prominent notice on our website.

Questions? Comments?

Having a secure site is important to us and customers who function on a safe site matters. If you should come across any issues with the accessibility or security of our site, please contact us at website@pmeasuring.com.